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I want to meet interesting people from all over the world to discuss stuff like forming secular communities; politics; religion; art; sex; child rearing and education; philosophy; ethics.

The religion you left

Catholic

Why you left your religion.

I never believed in the theistic aspects of it although I still love the things of value like the Sermon on the Mount. I have always found the intellectual constraints of dogma to be merely laughable if they weren't so deadly Also, as a bisexual man there really isn't any place in it for me.

Vincent's Blog

So lets see if I can come up with a conception of God that will irritate the hell out of everyone. OK. Assuming God exists what do I think It/Him/She/They is/are? I think that God is the 99%. By that I mean the 99% of you that is actually running your body and mind right up from creating new red blood cells to most of your "higher" brain functions. Another way to think of it is whenever you refer to yourself as "I" you are referring to less than 1% of the total of what "you" actually are.…

This is an interesting point. I was raised Roman Catholic and went to Catholic schools right up until college. Religion is a community builder, I'll give it that. We knew who we were, why we were, and where we were and there was no questioning any of these things. I think that is a good place to start for way more children than not given the gargantuan uncertainties built into the world of even the most secure child. My sense of it is that religion provides a stabilizing force to the mental…

Hello everyone. I'm an artist and writer and someone who is interested in community. I've been listening to a lot of Dan Dennett on youtube and find his argument that if secularists want to end the more harmful excesses of religion we have to provide institutions that do the things that religion is good at.

My view of religion is that God created me to not believe in Him, and in my conversations with Him,…